consumer prices-downpour Heavy rains not expected to give significant impact on inflation: ChooBy Kang Yoon-seung SEOUL, July 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's finance minister said Wednesday that recent heavy rains in the country are not expected to give an immediate impact on consumer prices. "There are some risk factors for this month's consumer prices, but as there are also downward factors, we do not believe that (the heavy rains) will have immediate adverse impacts on the prices," Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho said after visiting a chicken farm in Gongju, 119 kilometers south of Seoul.

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